Wire hinge



(No Model.)

W. O. PERKINS.

WIRE HINGE.

No. 395,403. Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

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WITNESSES: I INVENTOH.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EFICE,

IVILIAIAM C. PERKINS, OF NE\V HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

WIRE HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,403, dated. January 1, 1889.

Application filed ay 4, 1883. $eria1N0. 272,765. (No modelfi In the drawings, A denotes one piece ot', wire, and l represents the other wire from whieh the hinge is formed. The central portion of these two wires is twisted closely togetlner to form the body of the hinge, leaving the two ends of the same pieee of wire [n'ojeoting outward in substantially the same plane with each. other and withv the body The extreme ends ot these wires are bent, re-

speetively, in the same plane as the body ot the hinge to term eyes I), through which pass the screws used to fasten the leaves of the hinge to the parts eonneei ed by them.

It is obvious, as shown in the drawings, that i the twisted portion 011' the hinge resembles a serew, and. that when the leaf whirh is fastened to the door is rotated by the aetof opening the same it will sorew itself up on the fixed leaf of the hinge. It attached to a door, this lit'ting action of the hinge raises it, and thus prevents the door from dragging over the carpet or other tloor-eovering.

This hinge, being made wholly of wire, can be mannFaetured very cheaply and yet have all the strength and effieieilcyol the ordinary hinge.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a hinge composed wholly of wire and eonsisting of two pieoes of wire with their central portion twisted together and the remaining ends of each pieee of wire turned outward from the center of thehinge in the same dirtiection and plane and bent to form eyes for the reeeption of the serews which l'asten it to the door, snbstant iall as deseribel.

\VM. C. PERKINS.

\Vitnesses:

J ULius Twiss, WM. H. THOMPSON. 

